"From 2000-2010, Alaska actually cooled off by an average of 2.4 degrees, with 19 of 20 official weather stations reporting declines in that decade," Anderson writes. "In 2012, the state overall was 2.9 degrees cooler than normal."

"The jet stream usually rushes rapidly from west to east in a mostly straight direction. But lately it's been wobbling and weaving like a drunken driver, wreaking havoc as it goes," Borenstein writes.

That would explain why McGrath, Alaska, shivered through highs of 15 F last week before racing to 94 this week, or about 20 degrees above normal.

So there's no climate change then? It's not that easy, unfortunately, for those of you looking to prove or disprove those predictions of doom and gloom.

"It's been just a crazy fall and winter and spring all along, following a very abnormal sea ice condition in the Arctic," Rutgers University climate scientist Jennifer Francis told the AP [Arctic sea ice is actually near the 1979-2008 mean]. "It's possible what we're seeing in this unusual weather is all connected."